https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-52/ this week in sentences: monsters, strategy, high doses, groomed for gravitas, marriages and dishwashers, the promise of attempt, an emotion
Meta has engaged in a “systemic and global” censorship of pro-Palestinian content.
In a scathing 51-page report, Human Rights Watch documented and reviewed more than a thousand reported instances of Meta removing content and suspending or permanently banning accounts on Facebook and Instagram that were supportive of Palestinians https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/dec/21/meta-facebook-instagram-pro-palestine-censorship-human-rights-watch-report
“We have launched a new experimental feature on the SFO Museum Aviation Website: Coloring book pages (or sheets) for a subset of the objects in our collection. Coloring books are PDF files with a stylized, black and white outline of that object for you to print out and color as you see fit and can be thought of as a second attempt at producing a museum artifact that can follow you “out of the building”.” – https://millsfield.sfomuseum.org/blog/2023/12/18/coloringbook/
Local politics re who's not talking about Palestine
It's not that I expect most nonprofit arts orgs of NYC to be taking a stand for Palestine right now but feels gross seeing one that I am an alum of (Eyebeam) post fundraising slide shows talking about "art in times of crisis" in end of year fundraising w/o ever speaking to the crisis of genocide?
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https://buttondown.email/perfectsentences/archive/perfect-sentences-51/ this week in sentences: constant betrayal, peat, lidless, tumbleweed, his interpretive perspicacity, aloof austerity, just a head crawling, sometimes the world, inert matter
So I can finally tell you about one of the things I've been being SUPER impatient about:
If you're out in the world and happen to see a magazine with the words "Time," "Special Edition," "Artificial Intelligence," and "A New Age Of Possibilities" on the cover, you uhh… might wanna give pg. 28 a look 👀
So this episode is also pretty weird to release now because an uptick in militia fighting in DRC has drawn media attention back to the issue of "conflict minerals"—I've seen campaigns where people are quitting vaping in solidarity w/people of the Congo? Which, IDK. I hope this deeper dive into the longer history of tantalum mining in DRC is helpful for ppl just now learning about it.
https://ripcorp.biz/episodes/2500-and-a-dream-fansteel-and-the-history-of-tantalum new RIP Corp and it is a doozy of an episode!! Tantalum, labor strikes, colonialism, war, a million things. I am nervous about it because there's so much packed in here and also it's based on some of my master's thesis research so it feels kind of precious to me.